From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 23 14:34:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 505D837B417; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 14:34:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id fBNMYOK21642; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 17:34:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 17:34:23 -0500 (EST) From: doug X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: Robert Watson Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: MP3Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Robert Watson wrote: > The theory goes that there are a number of TCP improvements, in particular > a bugfix involving the newreno algorithm, that should address this > specific problem. Once our first release candidate comes out, we'd really > appreciate it if you had the chance to test and see if that fixes the > problem. It should be out around Jan 5, 2002. If it doesn't, please post > to freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org ASAP. (an upgrade on the -STABLE branch should > also fix it). > > Thanks! > > > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project > robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services > > On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Peter Ong wrote: > > > I apologize if I'm off. But it seems you guys are talking about improving > > FBSD 4.5 networking performance. > > > > I am currently using FreeBSD 4.4 Release. It works great, but there is that > > one problem Samba. I like Samba because it's functional. I don't know if > > it's Samba's fault, or if it's BSD's fault, but it behaves very erratically. > > Sometimes it's fast, sometimes it's slow. > > > > When I used RH7.1, I installed Samba there as well. Samba worked fine, but > > also with the same behavior. But it was somewhat more reliable on RH than > > FreeBSD. I don't know if it's Samba itself or the OS, although I'm inclined > > to say it is Samba. If so, disregard this message. > > > > When I used RH/Samba, I put all of my MP3 music there. I'd listen to it on > > Winamp from my Win98 laptop. It worked fine... no skips. But when I put > > it on FreeBSD, the first minute or so is skip free, but as it passes that > > time limit it starts skipping... I mean, it blanks out as if it's readying > > the cache faster than it's being transfered over the network. My network is > > 10/100Mbits switched. > > > > The difference is now only the operating system. The box is a P3/450/128MB. > > It had RH, then it moved to FreeBSD. Now, I'm having that problem. Videos > > are even worse. I have some *.mov, and Real movie files, that I must first > > download, and then I watch. I can't watch it over the wire. > > > > This is just my two cents. Maybe 5 cents. Thanks. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Robert Watson" > > To: "Nevermind" > > Cc: "Murray Stokely" ; ; > > ; > > Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 10:53 AM > > Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Nevermind wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, Murray Stokely! > > > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 04:30:37PM -0800, you wrote: > > > > > > > > > There were some problems with the network performance of FreeBSD 4.4 > > > > > that were never discovered during the release candidates phase, so I'd > > > > > like to take a more pro-active role in getting users to test the > > > > > system in more demanding environments. > > > > > > > > > > A complete list of changes is available in the 4.5-PRERELEASE > > > > > release notes, available at : > > > > > > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/ > > > > > > > > Could you, please, include in Relnotes that Java will be included in > > > > 4.5? > > > > > > I have't seen that support actually appear in ports/packages-land as yet, > > > but I greatly look forward to that happening. It would probably be > > > appropriate to wait until the details have been committed before > > > documenting it. > > > > > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project > > > robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message